Dictionary Entry
To set out to go (somewhere); to move towards.
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Poetry examples for “make for”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →O England, how hast thou forgot,
How fear'st the things which make for joy, not fear,
Confronted near.
Read full poem →old, and though never, until recently, well received by the critics, have
survived the test of NINE editions. Readers will be able to make for
themselves the obvious and striking contrasts between these first and
Read full poem →No, that's the world's way; (keep the mountain-side,
Make for the city!)
He knew the signal, and stepped on with pride
Read full poem →his liveliness of conception and narration, his high optimism, and his
interest in the things that make for the life of the soul, appeal to
the imagination and the feelings of youth.
Read full poem →Oh! there the chestnuts, summer through,
Beside the river make for you
A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep